Acting
Baron Brusenhielm at castle Tröstehult in Skåne dislikes how his young son Karl Oscar is playing “mother and father” with the tenant’s daughter Ann-Marie, as he anticipates the beginning of a future misalliance. Years pass, and Karl Oscar is about to graduate high school. He pretends to study church history but reads in fact “The Seducer’s Diary” and thinks of Ann-Marie, who is now grown up into a woman.
Tailor Ågren in Ebberöd lives with his dominant wife Karolina and their two children. His everyday life would have been problem free if it weren't for his debts.
Ninni is a girl who is paralyzed from the waist down. Her mother dies and she is taken care of by a friend of the family. She is trapped in the heart of Stockholm and can't get out of the city because the lack of money.
Farmer Mårten Esbjörnsson has three adult sons who all want to find a wife to marry. However, all the young women of the neighborhood seem to be less than perfect.
Ville Bom is the owner of a dance and boxing institute and lives a quite dissolute life.
Kalle Jeppson is the joyful owner of a rural inn, "SpĂĄngen" (The Footbridge). His only problems are all the bylaws that makes it difficult to have a quiet drink and the shrew of his wife who is always nagging on him. Kalle is afraid to tell her that Karin the maid is really his daughter from the days before their marriage.
Carl Malm is a goodhearted man who runs a railway station. He lives together with his maid and her seven kids.
Henrik Karlsson is accused of having stolen 5,000 SEK, even though he is innocent. But to protect the real thief, who is sick in hospital, Karlsson takes the full responsibility.
The life of the residents at Alpgatan 57 in Stockholm.
When Hjalmar Hagerts son, Bertil, returns after graduated at Alnarps agricultural school Hjalmar gets a phone call from his friend and lawyer Friberg. He want's to talk about commonly known Törner that is very sick and needs help.
The estate BokegĂĄrd has big debts, mostly because the owner MĂĄns Nilsson and his daughter Rose Marie just care about their horses.
An African, a Yugoslav, an American and a Scandinavian, each gives his own views on the work of building railways in Yugoslavia.
The SkĂĄne farmer Jeppsson has a tax debt and gets into trouble when he refuses to pay.
"Love on Tour" - A traveling theatre company has arrived at an outdoor stage. They are ready for the rehearsal. But one of the actors is missing.
During the spring of 1940 two young men gets drafted and deployed close to the Norwegian border, where they fall in love with the same woman.
Sten Stensson from Eslöv has just got his law-degree from the University of Stockholm.
The young beautiful sisters Lilly and Ragni are motherless. They live with their father, a horse dealer. During a horseback ride, Lilly and Ragni come to a pond of water lilies. They undress and swim naked. A local watches them play.
Gammel-Nils works as a guide at Glimmingehus and guides us through this movie about love and ghosts.
When the old fisherman Boman drowns on a storm night, his widow and daughter Gerd is left alone in their cabin. Lost.
The boxing match between Harry Persson and Bud Gorman on September 18, 1927 is shown, and the camera team also follows the two boxers on the days leading upmto the match,
